Archeologists of the world beat alarm: most precious historical monuments can vanish under the influence of climate changes. The salvation of Scythian entombments in Altai is now a matter of extraordinary importance for archeologists.

Saint Petersburg is likely to seal the glory of being the coffee capital or Russia as well.

Members of the Russian blogosphere presently discuss the idea of setting up a monument to the Russian revolutionary woman Fanny Kaplan who gained notoriety after her attempted assassination of Vladimir Lenin.

An unusually luxurious gilded edition of Fyodor Dostoevsky's illustrious novel Crime and Punishment has been published in France.

The Kolomenskoe Museum Reserve, Moscow, is going to host the Sand Sculpture World Championship for the second time.

An open competition for the best monument to the rock musician Viktor Tsoy (1962-1990), the leader of the Kino band, has been announced in Saint Petersburg

Archeologists have started examining the ruins of the Entry of Our Lord into Jerusalem Church discovered on April 10 during reparatory works in Veliki Novgorod Kremlin.

Rashid Nugmanov, the director of The Needle (Igla) (1988), which features the famous rock musician Viktor Tsoi, is working on the remake of this cult movie.

The Pushkin Museum of Fine Arts, Moscow, is going to hold an exhibition of Egyptian relics this August. It will be the first exhibition of the kind in Russia since 1973.

The 62-year-old hobo Leonid Konovalov from Kemerovo has featured himself in his erotic and philosophic film, which promises to shake the Cannes Film Festival.